The Story of Sugar

Sara Ware Bassett

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• Publié le: 08 décembre 2010
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It gives me much pleasure to acknowledge the courtesy of the American Sugar Refining Company, and also the kindness of Senator Truman G. Palmer, of Washington, D. C. S. W. B.

To my cousin   William Pittman Huxley   this book is affectionately inscribed

[Illustration: "Sugar it is, then!"] The Story of Sugar BY SARA WAREBASSETT Author of "The Story of Lumber" "The Story of Wool" "The Story of Leather" "The Story of Glass"

ILLUSTRATED BY C. P. GRAY

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Anne Folland, Ted Garvin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

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**Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts** **eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971** *****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!*****

Title: The Story of Sugar Author: Sara Ware Bassett Release Date: April, 2005 [EBook #7803] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on May 18, 2003] Edition: 10 Language: English

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE STORY OF SUGAR ***

I. COLVERSHAM

II. A NARROW ESCAPE

III. SUGARINGOFF

IV. THE REFINERY

V. VAN SPRINGS A SURPRISE

VI. A FAMILYTANGLE

VII. MR. CARLTON MAKES A WAGER AND WINS

VIII. VAN MUTINIES

IX. VAN'S GREAT DEED

X. HOW VAN BOREHIS PUNISHMENT

XI. THE BOYS MAKE A NEW ACQUAINTANCE

XII. THEDAWN OFA NEW YEAR

Illustrations

"SUGAR IT IS, THEN!"

"I DON'T REMEMBER THAT BIGROCK"

"I SHOULD THINK IT WOULD STICK TOGETHER"

"IT IS NO EASYTASK"

NO HORN HAD GIVEN WARNING

"THESE TANKS ARE CONNECTED"

T

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ORY OF SUGAR

C C H OLV A RE P SH T A E M R I

"Oh, say, Bobbie, quit that algebra and come on out! You've stuck at it a full hour already. What's the use of cramming any more? You'll get through the exam all right; you know you always do," protested Van Blake as he flipped a scrap of blotting paper across the study table at his roommate. Bob Carlton looked up from his book. "Perhaps you're right, Van," he replied, "but you see I can't be too sure on this stuff. Math isn't my strong point, and I simply must not fall down on it; if I should flunk it would break my father all up." "You flunk! I'd like to see you doing it." Van smiled derisively. "When you fall down on an exam the rest of us better give up. You know perfectly well you'll get by. You are always worrying your head off when there's no earthly need of it. Now look at me. If there is any worrying to be done I'm the one that ought to be doing it. Do I look fussed? You don't catch your uncle losing any sleep over his exams—and yet I generally manage to scrape along, too." "I know you do—you old eel!" Bob glanced admiringly at his friend. "I believe you just wriggle by on the strength of your grin." "Well, if you are such a believer in a grin why don't you cultivate one yourself and see how far it will carry you?" chuckled Van. "The trouble with you, Bobbie, is your conscience; you ought to be operated on for it. Why are you so afraid you won't get good marks all the time?" "I'm not afraid; but I'd be ashamed if I didn't," was the serious reply. "I promised my father that if he'd let me come to Colversham to school I'd do my best, and I mean to. It costs a pile of money for him to send me here, and it's only decent of me to hold up my end of the bargain." Van Cortlandt Blake stretched his arms and gazed thoughtfully down at the ruler he was twirling in his fingers. "Bobbie, you're a trump; I wish more fellows were like you. The difference between us is that while I perfectly agree with you I sit back and talk about it; you go ahead and do something. It's rotten of me not to work harder down here. I know my father is sore on it, and every time he writes I mean to take a brace and do better—honest I do, no kidding. But you know how it goes. Somebody wants me on the ball nine, or on the hockey team, or in the next play, and I say yes to every one of them. The first I know I haven't a minute to study and then I get ragged on the exams. "You are too popular for your own good, Van. No, I'm not throwing spinach, straight I'm not. What I mean is that everybody likes you. Why, there isn't a more popular boy in the school! That's why you get pulled into every sort of thing that's going. It's all right, too, only if you expect to study any you've got to rise up in your boots and take a stand. That's why I shut myself up and grind regularly part of every evening. I don't enjoy doing it, but it's the only way." Van rose and began to roam round the room uneasily. "Goodness knows, Bobbie, if one of us didn't grind neither of us would get anywhere. By the way, did you manage to dig out that Caesar for to-morrow? Fire away and give me the product of your mighty brain. I guess I can memorize the translation if you read it to me enough times." Bob did not reply. "Well?" "I don't think it is a straight thing for me to translate your Latin for you every day, Van," he said at last. "You ought not to ask me to do it." "I know it; it's mighty low down—I acknowledge that," answered Van frankly. "But what would you have me do? Flunk it? Come on. I'll get it myself next time." "That's what you always say, Van, but you never do." "But I tell you I will. This week I've been so rushed with the Glee Club rehearsals I couldn't do a thing. But you wait and view yours truly next week." Reluctantly Bob took up his Caesar and opened it. "That's a gentleman, Bobbie. Some time when you're drowning I'll throw a plank to you. I knew you'd save my life." "I do not approve of doing it at all," Bob observed, still searching for the place in the much worn brown text-book. "I've done about all your studying this term." "I own it, oh Benefactor. Are you not my brain—my intellectual machinery? Could I live a day without you?"

Leaning across the table Van affectionately rumpled up Bob's tidy locks until every individual hair stood on end. "If it weren't for me you'd be dropped back into the next class—that's what would happen to you; and you deserve it, too." Van was silent. "I know it. I haven't put in an hour of solid work for a month, Bob I ought to be ashamed, and I am." He paused. "But there's no use jumping all over myself if I haven't," he resumed, shifting to a more sprightly tone. "I've said I was going to take a spurt soon and I mean it. I'll begin next week." "Why not start to-day?" There was a rap at the door. "Why not?" echoed Van, moving toward the door with evident relief. "Don't you see I can't? Somebody's always breaking in on my work. Here's somebody this very minute." He flung open the door. "Mail. A parcels-post package for you, Bob. I'll bet it's eats. Your mother's a corker at sending you things; I wish my mother sent me something now and then." "Well, it's a little different with you. Your family live so far out west they can't very well mail grub to you; but Mater is right here in New York, and of course as she's near by she'd be no sort of a mother if she didn't send me something beside this prison fare. Come on and see what it is this time." Bob loosened the string from the big box and began unwinding the wrappings. "Plum-cake!" he cried. "A dandy great loaf! And here's olives, and preserved ginger, and sweet chocolate. She's put in salted almonds, too; and look—here's a tin box of Hannah's molasses cookies, the kind I used to like when I was a kid. Isn't my mother a peach?" "She sure is; and she must think a lot of you," said Van slowly. "I wish my mother'd ever—" "Maybe if you pitched in a little harder here she'd feel—" "Oh, cut out the preaching, Bobbie," was the impatient retort. "I've had enough for one day." Bob did not speak, but tore open the letter that had come with the bundle. "Oh, listen to this, Van," he shouted excitedly. "Mother says they have decided to open the New Hampshire house for Easter. They're going up for my spring vacation and take in the sugaring off. What a lark! And listen to this. She writes: 'You'd better arrange to bring your roommate home with you for the holiday unless he has other plans.'" "Oh, I say!" "Could you go, Van?" Bob eyed his chum eagerly. "I don't see why I couldn't. I'm not going home to Colorado. It's too far. I was thinking of going to Boston with Ted Talbot, but I'd a good sight rather go batting with you, Bobbie, old man. It was fine of your mother to ask me. Where is the place?" "Our farm? It's in Allenville, New Hampshire, near Mount Monadnock. It used to be my grandfather's home, and after he died and we all moved to New York Father fixed it over and kept it so we could go there summers. I've never been up in the spring, though. It will be no end of fun." "I hope you do not call this weather spring," put in Van, sarcastically, pointing to the snow-buried hills outside. "Well, it is the middle of March, and it ought to be spring, if it isn't," answered Bob. "Just think! Only a week more of cramming; then the exams, and we're off. I'm awfully glad you can go." "You speak pretty cheerfully of the exams. I don't suppose you dread them much." Van lapsed into a moody silence, kicking the crumpled wrapping-paper into the fireplace. "You don't need to worry, Bob. But look at me. I'll be lucky if I squeak through at all. Of course I've never really flunked, but I've been so on the ragged edge of going under so many times that it's no fun." "Cheer up! You'll get through. Why, man alive, you've got to. Now come on and get at this Latin and afterward we'll pitch into the plum-cake." "What do you say we pitch into the cake first?"

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